Gas stove and range



Jan. 12, 1932. r 'J. 'TELLER ET. AL 1,840,751

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JACOB TELLER GOBLPOBATION F CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE,

AND ARTHUR -1 SCHULZ, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS TO TELLER .A. CORPORATION OF TENNESSEE GAS STOVE AND RANGE Application filed May 6, 1931. Serial No. 535,458.

This invention relates to gas stoves and ranges, and particularly to a type which is especially advantageous and useful in the kitchens or kitchenettes of small houses and apartments where space is a premium and where it is often .necessary to place the stove or range in narrow or irregular spaces or corners, or where it is necessary, due to the crowding of numerous pieces of kitchen furniture to arrange the stove so that it conserves space and presents no unnecessary piping or side fixtures.

To th's end; it is the primary object-of this invention, to so construct the stove, that no piping or parts thereof is exposed, and this is permitted by the utilization of otherwise wasted space between the stove wall platesfor housing the said piping and associated elements.

, It is a further object to provide a stove of small compass in which the burners within two compartments may be individually and independently controlled, so that either burner may be operated to the exclusion of the other, or bothmay be operated in unison.

These and other objects will be evident .from reference to thrxaccompanying specification and drawings, 11 which latter Figure 1 is a front perspective view, of the stove or range, parts being broken away to illustrate the interior construction;

Figure 2 is a vertical section taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

' Figure 3 is a horizontal section on the line 33 of Figure 2, and

Figure 4 is a perspective view the upper portion of one of the inner oven wall plates.

Referring now.more particularly to the drawings by numerals of reference, 2 designates the range generally, having suitable insulated outer side walls 3, outer rear wall 4 and front upper and lower outwardly swinging doors 6 and 7-, which respectively close the front openings of the upper oven compartment 8 and the lower compartment 9,: in the capacity of a the former serving both cooking oven and abroiler, while the latter may serve as a storage or warming chamber,

the two coinpartments being separated by an intermediate floor plate or partition 10, supper door 6 is opened.

from the outer side and ported in suitable manner to the inner side and rear walls of the range and at its forward edge supported by a transverse channel strip 11, which at the same time serves as onemember of the door frame for the doors 6 and 7 The upper portion or cooking top of the range embodies a rectangular, preferably cast frame 12, and supports the grids 14, above the burners 16 arranged in the burner and manifold compartment 17, the floor or base of which is formed by the top 18 of the oven compartment 8. At its forward portion, the burner compartment 17 is closed by a transverse flanged shield or plate 20, thefront face of which is flush with that of the two doors when they are closed as clearly shown in Figure 1. lhe lower flange 21 of the shield coacts with an uppenchannelled trans verse strip 22, the latter forming the upper frame member of the dohr 6. The usual drip pan 23 may be readily'slidoutwhen the up- Spaced inwardly rear walls of the upper oven compartment are the inner rear walls 25 and the inner side walls 26 and 27, as more clearly illustrated inFigure 3, the wall 26 being of the usual and well-known form, while the opposite side wall 27 is provided, in addition to the usual vertical end channels 29 and 30, witha parallel channel 31, and spaced recesses '33 and 34 will presently be described.

Since one of theprincipal features of the present range is the concealment of all the various piping, and associated parts, not only as concerns the gas supply manifold 36, which is arranged behind the shield plate at the front of the burner compartment 17,- but also as concerns the piping for supplying gas to the oven burners, we arrange to provide said piping in the space between certain spaced walls of the range.

- Tothisend, gas so ply pipes 39 and 40, arranged in substantially vertical parallel relation are disposed in the space between one of the side walls 3 'andits adjacent inner cut in the top flange 35, the purposes of which of the I tion'opens communication with both burners flange 35 and being, in turn, connected with i trolled by a valve handle 45.

r The pipe 39, at its lower end, through the connection 46 leads into a mixer 47 connected with a loop burner 48 arranged below the floor plate 10 of the oven 8. On the other hand, the pipe 40, through a connection 50 leads into a mixer 51 arranged at the lower end of gas pipe 52, disposed in the vertical chanrfel 31 of the wall 27 At its upper end, the gas pipe 52, is provided with an angular joint 53 which passes through an opening in the inner side wall, and connects with a loop burner 54 arranged in the upper portion of the oven 8 and below the top wall 18.

As will be noted in Figure 1, the inner plate 27 extends only sufiiciently below the oven floor plate 10 to conceal the piping referred to, yet permits of a sufiicient supply of air to the mixers 47 and 51to afford proper combustion at the burners.

Referring again to the three way' gas valve 31, the construction of which may take any suitably operative form, and to the specific details of which we do not limit ourselves, the operation is as follows; The valve, when moved from its closed position to ,a second position by the handle 45 opens communica tion with the burner 54 in the upper oven compartment 8; in a third position it opens communication with the burner 48 in the lower compartment 9, and in a fourth posi- 48 and 54. It will thus be seen that a multiple control of the oven heating and broilegburners is afforded through a single valve mechanism, eliminating of valve mechanism.

As will be clearly observed upon reference to Figures 1 and 2, the lower ends of the gas are below the floor 10 of the oven, and the mixers 48 and 51 are therefore not subjected to the heat of the take cool air from the lower. compartment The several top burners 16 are controlled by handles which operate the valve 61 ar-.

1. A gas range having an oven, a burner f within said oven, spaced plates constituting the wallsof said oven, a gas supply pipe dis- 65 posed between certain of said spaced plates forming one of the walls of said oven, a

unnecessary multiplicity pipe leading to the loop burners 48 and'51" oven, but on the contrary.

constituting the storage chamber.

mixed gas and air supply pipe disposed be- 1 tween said wall plates and having an air and gas mixer, and means of communication between said gas and air supply pipe andsaid burner, and between said mixed gas and air supply pipe and said gas supply pipe. v

2. A gas range having an oven, a burner within said oven, spaced plates constituting the walls of said oven, a as supply pipe disposed between certain 0 said spaced plates forming one of the walls of said oven, a mixed gas and airsupply pipe disposed-between said wall plates and having an air and gas mixer at its lower end, and means of com munication between said gas and air supply pipe and said burner, and between said mixed gas and air supply pipe and said gas supply ipe.

p 3. A gas range having an oven with a floor, a burner within said oven, spaced plates forming the walls of said oven, a gas supply pipe disposed between the spaced plates which form one of the ;walls of said oven, a mixed gas and air supply pipe communicating with the burner disposed between said wall lates and having a mixer .at its lower end said oven bottom, and means of communicationbetween said gas supply pipe and said mixer.

4. A gas range having an upper oven compartment and a lower compartment, a partition plate separating said compartments, a

low

gas and air supply pipe communicating with the #burner in the upper compartment and disposed between said spaced wall plates, a

' second mixed gas and air supply pipe below said partition plate and communicating with the burner in the lower compartment, mixer's .for each of said gas and air supply pipes and means of communication between each of said gas supply pipes and said mixers'respectively. 5. A gas range having an oven with a floor, a burner within said oven, inner and outer spaced plates forming the walls of said oven a gas supply pipe'disposed between the spaced plates forming one of the walls of said oven,

.1, mixed gas and air pipedisposed between said walls, and having a mixer disposed below the plane of said oven floor and isolated from said oven, and means of communication between said gas pply pipe, the mixed gas and airpipe and said burner.

6. A gas range having an oven with a floor and a lower compartment, a burner within said oven, inner' and outer spaced plates orming one of the walls of said oven, a gas supply pipe disposed between said spaced plates, a mixed air and gas pipe'also disposed between said spaced plates, an inner p ate in said lower compartment and in an air and spaced relation to its outer wall, the lower ends of said pipes being disposed behind said inner plate, means of communication between said gas supply pipe and said mixed air and gas pipe, and a supply connection between the latter and the burner.

7. A gas range having an oven, a burner within said oven, spaced plates constituting the Walls of said oven, a gas supply pipe disposed between certain of said spaced plates forming one of the walls of said oven, a mixed gas and air supply pipe disposed between certain of said wall plates and having gas mixer connected with said and means of communication between said gasand air supply pipe and said burner, and between said mixed gas and air supplypipe and said gas supply pipe.

gas supply pipes,

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures.

JACOB TELLER. ARTHUR P. SCHULZ. 

